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You can change the words, font properties, and color of an entire Text object by selecting the object and setting the desired properties in the Inspector. Use the text property to specify the words. (Click the wrench tool beside the text property to open a string-builder dialog box.)

To edit directly on the design surface, or to format parts of a Text object individually, or to format in ways not available in the Inspector (for example, to specify a list format), select the Text object, and then select the text to get an insertion point. After you have an insertion point, you can drag over words to select them or double-click to select one word. Then you can edit the words in-place, or format, as desired, using either of the following:

Format toolbar (View|Tool Windows|Format toolbar)

Format menu

Note

Once you have used the Format toolbar or menu to change parts of a Text object, you cannot use the Inspector to override what you have done. Use the Format toolbar or menu, instead. However, the Inspector will make changes you specify to anything you haven’t already changed by using the Format toolbar or Format menu.